02:33 - VIGJust sayin' I remember nikarg's Sodom review on the front page, that album was like 30 years old

02:27 - ScreamingSteelUSTechnically, Che's Manunkind review was too old to be featured on the front page. That was a special exception; usually, we prefer to keep our reviews within three-to-four months, with six months as an absolute cutoff.

02:14 - VIG@Radu Of course! I don't think it's too old to be featured on the front page. Look at Che's Manunkind review

00:09 - RaduPPublished a review for an album that's a bit too old to be featured on the front page, but you guys will read it, right? [link]

Hammett tells Billboard that the quartet will start working on the follow-up to 2008's Death Magnetic "in a couple of weeks. When we start, that's going to be our main priority, and we're pretty excited about it because we've been saying we need to start working on this album, but we've been procrastinating greatly with it. We've pretty much come up with every sort of excuse we can not to start work on the album, but we've run out of excuses, so we pretty much have to start work on it now."

Hammett adds: "We're a band that never has a shortage of ideas. You hear about these bands that are sitting in the studio and they don't have any songs, what are they gonna do? That's not Metallica. Metallica's problem is the total opposite. We have too many ideas. James (Hetfield) has, like, 800 ideas. I have 400. Those number alone are just crazy. That's formidable."

Hammett is also preparing for Metallica's Grammy appearance, during which the group will perform its 1988 single "One" with Lang Lang on January 26th: "That's going to be really interesting. It's going to be an arrangement that highlights some of Lang Lang's playing, but we're not lightening up the song just for him. We're still hanging onto all the heavy parts. He's just an amazing pianist; at one point he's going to be, like, weaving in and out of my guitar solo and playing parts of my guitar solo with me. I've never, ever experienced that before with anyone we've ever played with, so I'm going to be pretty psyched to be playing with him, to say the least. It's gonna be amazing."

"...we need to start working on this album, but we've been procrastinating greatly with it. We've pretty much come up with every sort of excuse we can not to start work on the album, but we've run out of excuses, so we pretty much have to start work on it now."

They've been procrastinating ever since 1991... look at the time gaps between albums. They realized that releasing albums is no longer profitable, and the fact that they released bad ones since then confirms the rule. Why waste time to release new songs oftenly when for more than 20 years you played the same old classics in a venue that all people got familiarized with?

They've been saying they were getting ready to start work on this album since 2011! I was a huge Metallica fan back in 2011, but now I've moved on because I got sick of waiting for this after all the constant "We're getting ready to start recording the next album" crap (although, admittedly, Lulu did not help: it was the first studio recording Metallica put out since I became a metal fan)!

*sigh* Well, at least they're finally getting started. As long as Rick Rubin isn't producing it, I reckon this could still turn out to be good. It's only because of the production that I don't listen to Death Magnetic: I thought the actual material itself was surprisingly good. Not their best material by any measure, but it was a solid return to metal that maybe could have done with a bit more trimming down (some songs had some very unnecessary passages that dragged the songs down).

They've been saying they were getting ready to start work on this album since 2011! I was a huge Metallica fan back in 2011, but now I've moved on because I got sick of waiting for this after all the constant "We're getting ready to start recording the next album" crap (although, admittedly, Lulu did not help: it was the first studio recording Metallica put out since I became a metal fan)!

Who cares about when they release the next record. It comes when it comes...you don't have to stop being a fan just because it takes so long

It doesn't change the fact that it is gonna be another rubish album by rubishllica i do love the old albums even black album, load and reload and those are not trash metal albums but rest of them is just for money just so the fans can hear another lazy boring album. i will listen to it but i don't think it will be worth another listening. Metallica is not Trash metal anymore so for me it's not worth listening!

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And I see the blade fall down upon the head of lord in heaven
And Darkness falls upon the end of history
While I drink the milk of the Black Goddess and cry over the mankind

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And I see the blade fall down upon the head of lord in heaven
And Darkness falls upon the end of history
While I drink the milk of the Black Goddess and cry over the mankind

Black Moses is my name...

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I liked Death Magnetic and Beyond Magnetic. I thought that material was a big step in the right direction after the abortion St. Anger was.

I have a feeling that the next album is going to be no holds barred old school thrash metal...

...and it is going to shock everyone that has been hating on them for the last 20 years.

Naturally this statement here: "We've pretty much come up with every sort of excuse we can not to start work on the album, but we've run out of excuses, so we pretty much have to start work on it now." concerns me, but I believe they are still capable of it as musicians. Of course, I could be wrong and it might end up being a massive, steaming pile of shit...we shall see.

T - H - R - A - S - H metal. seems to be hard for people to grasp the name of that genre...

anyways, couldn't be less promising when Kirk himself says he's putting it off, I read that like "yeah, we don't really want to write another album but we have to for one reason or another and are putting it off and it will be shitty, probably"

Yeah, almost like "don't expect too much, because we don't even want to start recording..". Meh, I was still a fan even after Death Magnetic, but this is getting ridicolous - it just seem like they're doing everything wrong.

I don"t consider it more than an average album, but i think it was a major step up from the previous albums (metallica and the loads) as it, just like the name suggests, did sound more angry and brought some energy back

They've been saying they were getting ready to start work on this album since 2011! I was a huge Metallica fan back in 2011, but now I've moved on because I got sick of waiting for this after all the constant "We're getting ready to start recording the next album" crap (although, admittedly, Lulu did not help: it was the first studio recording Metallica put out since I became a metal fan)!

Who cares about when they release the next record. It comes when it comes...you don't have to stop being a fan just because it takes so long

My issue was more the fact that they'd said they'd been working on it for the last three years (they even mentioned working on it after doing their 30th anniversary shows in So What?). Lulu being the first album they released since I became a metal fan got me thinking they'd get started pretty quickly after that (since there's not really a lot they could have done to tour it), but after a year and a bit, I just got so sick of waiting (and I'd heard so much other good stuff) that I just gave up waiting and moved on.

Didn't mean to say by that that I'm no longer a Metallica fan. Just that I'm a grumpy fan who's annoyed they've taken so long to actually do something resembling progress on it after Lulu came out.

Written by Nemo Atkins on 18.01.2014 at 20:20My issue was more the fact that they'd said they'd been working on it for the last three years (they even mentioned working on it after doing their 30th anniversary shows in So What?). Lulu being the first album they released since I became a metal fan got me thinking they'd get started pretty quickly after that (since there's not really a lot they could have done to tour it), but after a year and a bit, I just got so sick of waiting (and I'd heard so much other good stuff) that I just gave up waiting and moved on.

Didn't mean to say by that that I'm no longer a Metallica fan. Just that I'm a grumpy fan who's annoyed they've taken so long to actually do something resembling progress on it after Lulu came out.

I hear you...they're not a very reliable band, so - despite how much I enjoy most of their material - "moving on" is the right choice

Does someone expect something good from these guys? Will we receive another portion of endless "Unforgiven dynasty"? Besides I've been reading news about their new almost for almost two years. As for my person, I don't expect much from them.

Whatever, not sure if I'll care much, obviously I will be curious to what it sounds like since it'll be their first album of new material (just by themselves, without Lou Reed) but I probably won't pick it up, since I've found better music since Death Magnetic came out and I don't really care much for Metallica these days anyway.

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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have little (FDR).

You hear about these bands that are sitting in the studio and they don't have any songs, what are they gonna do?
Never heard of any honestly,are they trying to show us they're bigger than anyone else even if they're truly are